Argyrops spinifer

Argyrops spinifer is also known as king soldier bream, Bowen snapper, frying-pan snapper, frypan bream, long-spined red bream, longfin snapper, longspine seabream and red bokako. It is a species of fish in the family Sparidae.

King soldier bream
King soldier bream
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Sparidae
Genus:
Argyrops
Binomial name
Argyrops spinifer
(Forsskål, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Calamus ciliaris
  • Pagrus ciliaris
  • Sparus spinifer

It is used as seafood and can be found in the Red Sea, Eastern coast of Africa and northern Australia.[1]

References
  1. King SoldierBream Archived 2020-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. Seafood Portal.

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Argyrops spinifer" in FishBase. May 2014 version.

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